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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8332571, member: 20201&quot;]<i><span style="color: #0000b3"><b>Z <u>yours</u> looks like gold!</b></span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is bronze, <b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/jim-dale.100459/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/jim-dale.100459/">Jim Dale</a></font></b></p><p>You can find one like mine rather easy on the wallet here.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=1983+Vietnam+MIA+POW+Medal&amp;_sacat=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=1983+Vietnam+MIA+POW+Medal&amp;_sacat=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=1983+Vietnam+MIA+POW+Medal&amp;_sacat=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1983 Vietnam MIA POW Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477034[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue concerns the fate of United States servicemen who were reported as missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam War and associated theaters of operation in Southeast Asia.</p><p>Following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) were returned during Operation Homecoming. The U.S. listed about 2,500 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action but only 1,200 Americans were reported killed in action and body not recovered.</p><p>Many of these were Airmen who were shot down over North Vietnam or Laos.</p><p>Investigations of these incidents have involved determining whether the men involved survived being shot down.</p><p>If they did not survive, then the U.S. government considered efforts to recover its soldiers&#039; remains. POW/MIA activists played a role in pushing the U.S. government to improve its efforts in resolving the fates of the missing soldiers.</p><p>Considerable speculation and investigation has contributed to a hypothesis that a significant number of missing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam Conflict were captured as prisoners of war by Communist forces and kept as live prisoners after U.S. involvement in the war concluded in 1973.</p><p>A vocal group of POW/MIA activists maintains that there has been a concerted conspiracy by the Vietnamese and American governments since then to hide the existence of these prisoners. The U.S. government has steadfastly denied that prisoners were left behind or that any effort has been made to cover up their existence.</p><p>The fate of those missing in action has always been one of the most troubling and unsettling consequences of any war. In this case, the issue has been a highly emotional one to those involved, and is often considered the last depressing, divisive aftereffect of the Vietnam War for the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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